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19 Reasons to Upgrade to FICO Decision Modeler from Blaze Today

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3 years ago
At FICO® we strive to delight our customers and offer industry-leading technology to drive business outcomes. We want to introduce you to FICO® Decision Modeler, the next evolutionary step from FICO® Blaze Advisor. This cutting-edge solution offers unparalleled capabilities to revolutionize your decision-making process.

Ease of use and accessibility are at the core of FICO® Decision Modeler. Powered by FICO® Platform, Decision Modeler can be accessed via web browser offering a business authoring interface that empowers you to write edit and test business rules effortlessly.  You will experience its intuitive design tailored to optimize your operations and meet your organization’s unique needs.

Embracing this upgrade is intuitive, there’s no need for drawn-out installations and deployments; , reducing the burden on IT. With the added benefit of being built on FICO® Platform you can combine Decision Modeler with analytics and optimization solutions, to elevate your business to new heights.

Need more convincing? Here are 19 reasons Decision Modeler can help you grow your business:

1. 20 years of rules automation best practices, available now in Decision Modeler. 
The know-how from hundreds of Blaze deployments – many for Fortune 500 businesses – went into building Decision Modeler. From the first moment you open Decision Modeler in your browser, you know it’s built to work for you and your organization. 

2. Connect your decisions across the enterprise. 
If you’re a FICO Blaze Advisor user, you understand the value of articulating and codifying decision strategies and processes. Now, consider the impact of connecting these processes throughout your company! FICO Decision Modeler allows you to do this without changing the way you’ve implemented your existing decision strategies: connecting your strategies across the organization creates a customer 360˚ superpower for your business.

3. FICO® Decision Modeler is built for business users. 
Eliminate the need for technical users to spend weeks (or months) preparing a project for business users. With just one click, get started with an easy-to-use business authoring interface. Easily write, edit and test business rules in a browser, using drag-and-drop capabilities. 

4. Realize the true power of collaboration. 
Since Decision Modeler runs on the FICO® Platform, you’ll benefit from collaboration between your decision modelers as well as other colleagues who focus on data analysis, predictive analytics, optimization solutions, and application development. FICO Platform® is the linchpin to operationalizing and institutionalizing your decision strategies. 

5. There’s nothing to install. At all. 
You simply access your web browser, and access Decision Modeler. There’s no need to install software – which reduces the burden on IT as well. 

6. Need batch processing? It’s already here. 
Batch processing is available out of the box – no need to ask IT to build anything. 

7. Application development at the snap of a finger. 
FICO® Platform is built on web services.  This makes it easier than ever to rapidly build applications that embed decision services through an easily deployable catalog of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).  Not only that, but change management is also so easy you may start considering updates and modifications to business logic as a daily strategic differentiator.

8. Monetize and optimize your analytic investments. 
Combine Decision Modeler with analytics, and optimization, and watch your business performance take off. 

9. Built-in, ironclad security. 
Everything is secure out of the box, so you have one less headache to worry about. Single sign-on means that users are authenticated via a centralized provisioning authority. 

10. Four eyes are watching, so you’re covered. 
A critical part of any rules system is the maker/checker, which helps ensure optimal segregation of duties (e.g., one person edits the rule and another approves it). Decision Modeler provides the feature out of the box, with built-in best practices, meaning secure lifecycle management is now standard out-of-the-box.

11. Visually explain production decisions. 
In both Blaze Advisor and Decision Modeler, you can visualize and explain decisions that were made literally minutes ago in production. With the power of FICO® Platform, however, Decision Modeler can access historical decisions and analyze monthly, quarterly, or annual decision logic.

12. Expand your decision power with powerful visualization tools. 
Visualize, explore, and track decision data in real-time after decisions are pushed to production. No need to wait for IT to put data in environments the business has access to. (Additional license may be required.) 

13. Test your decisions before making real-world mistakes.
In both Blaze Advisor and Decision Modeler you can test your decision rules to identify rules logic and identify any errors before implementing in production.  In Decision Modeler, you can simulate your business logic using existing or sample data, allowing you to visualize the potential effects of your changes  on offers or logical outcomes.

14. Other systems can’t outrun Decision Modeler performance. 
Leverage the fastest rules engine execution in the market. In Decision Modeler, Compiled Sequential mode is enabled for all projects, which can provide a significant performance improvement. And there’s no extra cost for this feature – another reason to upgrade! 

15. Enjoy a complementary Blaze Advisor Builder IDE seat. 
If IT needs to review a specific project, a free Blaze Advisor Builder IDE seat is included with every Decision Modeler license. 

16. Upgrading is easier than ever. 
Since Decision Modeler provides all the functionality and capabilities of Blaze Advisor in the cloud, you can migrate your Blaze files seamlessly to Decision Modeler and not miss a beat. Decision Modeler is compatible with existing Blaze Advisor projects so you don’t have to reformat or reconfigure existing Blaze projects. Just import the project(s) and you’re ready to go with the easy-to-use interface and RMA you’re used to. 

17. The cloud makes it all happen. 
In addition to getting Blaze Advisor capabilities in the cloud, you will also benefit from immediate deployment and installation, scale and availability – after all, the cloud paradigm enables all the access, collaboration, and execution benefits listed here. 

18. Decision Modeler is hybrid too.
If you want all the benefits of authoring in the cloud with access to everything FICO®  Platform has to offer but still want the benefits of rules execution on-premises – you want to execute rules behind your firewall, close to your data, or even execute based on a streaming event processing engine – you can do that by combining Decision Modeler with a local installed execution instance.  It’s seamless and scalable.  (Additional execution license is required.)

19. You can try it right now with no commitments for 30 days for free.
We want you to check it out with no commitments as we are entirely sure you’ll experience the benefits of Decision Modeler right away, so we’ve made getting started as easy as clicking on this link:  FICO Decision Modeler 30-day free trial.

Unlock new possibilities, streamline your operations, and elevate your decision-making capabilities. Importing your Blaze files to Decision Modeler is seamless and you can continue to enjoy the familiar interface and robust capabilities while adding a slew of new features. As a cloud-based program enjoy the added benefits of immediate deployment and installation, operating at scale, and 24/7 availability that Decision Modeler has to offer.

Don’t just take our word for it, we invite you to experience the incredible benefits of FICO Decision Modeler for yourself. We are confident that you will witness the transformative power of this upgrade from Day 1. Click here to start your journey:  FICO Decision Modeler 30-day free trial.Together, we can unlock hidden potential and propel your business to new heights.

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